Competition

To go 'Invincible' you must play every game week of the season, from the first. Entry is limited to one per Predictor. Anyone found entering multiple times is eliminated from the competition, with no buy-back and no option to rejoin.

Anyone found to be attempting to have multiple entries, Sapien Interactive LTD reserves the right to null and void any user entrees deemed be seen as ‘gaming’ or creating an unfair advantage. In the case of any such investigation, winners will be verified for authenticity of profile and Sapien Interactive LTD holds the right to not payout any of the three prize funds on offer. If our investigation finds unlawful entry has been made.

There needs to be a minimum of 1,000 users for the £1,000. If less the prize will be £1 per user.

Entry is permitted to all free to play competitions to users stipulated by the relevant ‘App Store’ and ‘Google Play’ store used by the Predictor “user” to access the Bootbag app. *

Picks are fixture-based, not team-based: each week you back a team to win a specific match.

• Pick the winners of 3 fixtures each game week — a flat three, whatever the mix of leagues that week.
• One team per fixture. Three picks means three different fixtures.
• Any fixture in any league is eligible. All five leagues — Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two and the WSL — are open every week.
• Picks are sent privately, so no other Predictor can see which clubs you've selected.

Club spend

A club can be picked twice a season — once at home, once away.

These are two independent slots:

• Backing a club at home doesn't touch its away slot, and vice versa.
• Both slots can be spent in the same game week if the club plays home and away fixtures in that week.
• Slots don't reset mid-season — once spent, a slot is gone for the rest of the season. They do reset at the start of each new season.
• If a club has no fixture in a given week, its slots simply carry over unspent.

Deadline

Picks lock 2 hours before the first fixture of the game week — one deadline covers all three picks, regardless of which day each fixture falls on.

Each pick scores as follows. A defeat scores nothing — there's no way for a pick to go negative.

Points = result + (10 × goal difference) + bonuses + pick value (a loss always scores 0)

Every fixture shows a pick value: what that team is worth if they win. The less likely the win, the more it's worth — from single figures for a heavy favourite to 300 for a long shot. You score the value showing when you pick, and changing a pick takes the value showing then.

Everything is linked to the team you backed — their goals, their clean sheet, their cards. What the opponent does is irrelevant.

A game week's score is the sum of that week's three picks.

At half-time, you may freeze one game per week and bank that fixture's score exactly as it stands at the break — the result, the margin, both bonuses and the pick value, with the bonuses judged on the first half only.

• Offered once, at the half-time break — not a continuous live option.
• One freeze per game week, on a fixture you've picked.
• Once frozen, it's locked in: nothing that happens in the second half can change it, for better or worse.
• Freezing a fixture you're losing at half-time banks 0 — there's never a reason to do this.
• A freeze can't be undone, and a fixture can only be frozen once.

If one of your fixtures is suspended or postponed after picks have locked:

• The pick scores +1 — a neutral value.
• The club's slot is refunded and can be picked again later in the season.
• It does not count as a loss, so it doesn't eliminate you from Invincible and doesn't break a win streak.

A fixture already known to be postponed before picks open can't be selected.

The competition runs the full season: three picks in every game week, from the first week to the last.

• You stay in as long as none of your picks records a loss. Wins and draws both keep you alive.
• The moment one of your three weekly picks loses, you're eliminated — automatically, with no buy-back.
• Sitting out a game week, or holding fewer than three picks when its last match kicks off, also ends your run.
• A postponed or suspended fixture (see game rules for full details) never eliminates you.

£1,000 to the Predictor with the most points in the game week.

• Standings are ranked purely on points. There's no tie-break statistical ladder — if two or more Predictors finish level, they share the same position and split the £1,000 evenly between them.
• Nothing rolls over to the following week.
• A split prize is paid in whole pennies, and any penny left over is kept. If a tie is so large that an equal share would round down to £0.00, the prize is not paid.

• Season winner (guaranteed): the Predictor with the most points across every game week of the season wins £10,000 cash.**
• Season-ending Invincible prize: £100,000 for any Predictor still standing at the end of the season — three picks in every game week, and not one of them lost.
• If several Predictors are still Invincible at the end of the season, or are tied on points for the season prize, they share the position and split the prize evenly — there's no tie-break ladder here either.

If Predictors end on the same score, £10,000 prize will be split between winners

Tables show

Pos · Predictor · Pts

Other Predictors can see your points and goal data, but never your private profile.

Weekly winners are confirmed once the game week settles, after its last match's full time. Bootbag (Sapien Interactive) will contact the winner directly and transfer the prize by bank transfer. The season prize follows the same process, once the final game week settles.